China’s parliament has voted to make disrespecting the country’s national anthem a criminal offense with a penalty of up to three years in prison. The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress added an amendment to the country’s criminal law to include punishment for anyone found “seriously” disrespecting the national anthem in public. Xinhua, China’s […]
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International, USAAn atheist woman seeking citizenship in Massachusetts is suing to remove the phrase “so help me God” from the United States citizenship oath. Olga Paule Perrier-Bilbo, a French national who has lived in the U.S. since 2000 with a green card, says that the inclusion of the phrase is an unconstitutional violation of her religious
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USARepublican lawmakers are demanding the resignation of special counsel Robert Mueller claiming the former FBI director was too closely involved with the Obama administration’s secret Russian-U.S. uranium deal, currently under investigation by Congress. Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Friday introduced a resolution calling for the resignation of Mueller because he led the FBI in 2010
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International, USASen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, was assaulted at his home in Bowling Green, Ky., his office confirmed Saturday. The incident happened Friday afternoon, Mr. Paul’s office said in a statement, and a suspect has been taken into custody, according to local law enforcement. “Senator Paul was blindsided and the victim of an assault,” said Kelsey
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USAThe State Department is facing questions from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s ranking Democrat over Paul Manafort’s possession of multiple U.S. passports. Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland sent a letter Friday to John Sullivan, the deputy secretary of State, seeking information about the three passports belonging to Mr. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, referenced
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USATEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Saturday held the heavily choreographed pageant of anti-Americanism that marks the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran amid worsening relations with the Trump administration and uncertainty about the fate of its nuclear agreement with world powers. This year’s anniversary was commemorated under cloudy, polluted skies
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Middle East, USAPresident Trump’s personal Twitter account was briefly suspended this week by a rogue contractor and not a company employee as previously claimed, according to a new report. Sources familiar with the matter said that a third-party contractor temporarily deleted the president’s Twitter account this week, The New York Times reported Friday, calling into the question
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USAA few words about President Donald Trump from Sen. Dianne Feinstein over the summer personified her well-worn reputation as a measured veteran elected official. And they’ll also surely be the centerpieces of Democratic campaigns attempting to unseat her. It was a boilerplate political event at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Aug. 29. Feinstein,
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USAU.S. President Donald Trump was en route to Japan on Saturday after a stopover in Hawaii, where he paid a solemn visit to the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, the site of the surprise Japanese naval attack in 1941 that plunged the U.S. into World War II. Before departing for Japan, his first stop
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International, USAGeorge W. Bush, George H.W. Bush The White House is pushing back after newly released excerpts from a book on former presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush revealed that they both criticized President Donald Trump. “The Last Republicans” by Mark K. Updegrove, which will be released later this month, was previewed by The
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USABy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The Iraqi Kurds’ referendum that was conducted several weeks ago won an overwhelming majority in favor of independence, but was rejected by much of the international community, especially by the US and the Iraqi government. Self-determination, however, is unstoppable because it is a core of human rights. No power
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –It is one thing to hear people pray in a Mosque saying “Allahu akbar” in unison, for we all have our unique way of expressing prayer. However, when you hear somebody on a jet that is flying 40,000 feet in the air screaming to the top of
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International, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USASANTA ROSA, California (Press Release) – Just three weeks after deadly wildfires caused widespread destruction throughout Northern California, resulting in significant damage at the camp’s physical location in Santa Rosa, the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) announced Friday that URJ Camp Newman will be housed for Summer 2018 at the facilities of California State University
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USAThe United States of America is run by a man who orders federal investigations into his political enemies the way normal people summon the fashion police: On Twitter. And voices from both the left and right are now saying Trump is venturing onto treacherous ground. Back from his brief and unscheduled Twitter hiatus, Trump fired
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